Looking back, the COVID-19 pandemic might have given me time to rest at home after months of school, but the switch from a letter-based grading system to pass/fail grading severely hurt my motivation, as well as many students around me. But for others, like me, the pass/fail grading system would undermine their motivation to keep their grades up. I am glad that this grading system was not continually used, because, for students like me, pass-fail grading is setting us up for failure.